The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
A thought is an idea in transit.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
My weapon is literature
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Know what you are talking about.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
